The “missing pages” of the novel HHhH (“H-H-H-H”), which is set during this event, criticize a novel set during this event and its opening line, “Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this event, the setting of Jonathan Littell’s 900-page novel The Kindly Ones. In a work by a Romanian-born author set during this event, the narrator meets Madame Schächter and hears Juliek play the violin.
ANSWER: World War II [or WWII; or Second World War; accept the Holocaust or the German occupation of France or Operation Anthropoid; accept descriptions of Reinhard Heydrich’s assassination] (HHhH is by Laurent Binet. The last clue is about Night by Elie Wiesel.)
[10e] The Kindly Ones is framed as a fictional work in this genre by Dr. Maximilien Aue (“OW-uh”). Elie Wiesel recounted his experiences during the Holocaust in a work in this genre titled Night.
ANSWER: memoir [or autobiography]
[10h] The narrator investigates a Jewish girl who disappeared in Paris in 1941 in his autobiographical novel Dora Bruder. Guy Roland loses his memory during World War II in this author’s novel Missing Person.
ANSWER: Patrick Modiano [or Jean Patrick Modiano]
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